The Hudhayl adopted Suwa[1]
[as their god] and placed it in Ruhat[2]
in the vicinity of Yanbu'[3], one of the
villages of Medina. The custodians [of its temple] were the
banu-Lihyan[4]. However, I have not heard
any mention of it in the poems of

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the Hudhalites[5]. I did, however, hear of it
in a poem by a certain man from Yemen.

5. A part of the Hudhalites' poems was publiahed hy J. C. L. Kosegarten under the title The Hudsailian Poems, London, 1854; the remaining part was published by J. Wellhausen in Skizzen und Vorarbeiten, vol.1, Berlin, 1884.